District Judge Thomas F. Hogan has allowed federal prosecutors investigating allegations that Representative William J. Jefferson (D-La.) accepted bribes to resume their review of the materials confiscated from his congressional offices. Claims by Jefferson that the raid conducted was unconstitutional; ...
"The Supreme Court ratifies the power of Guarantees Judge #30 to resolve the request for liberty of ex-senator Alvaro Uribe Velez," the court said in a post on Twitter. Uribe, a mentor to current President Ivan Duque, has insisted he is innocent. He resigned h...
and if any negative action follows, the burden of proof will fall on the employer to show that they were not behaving in a retaliatory manner,” says Kimberly Williams, a vice president at Walker Advertising, a law firm advertising agency. “Everyone should review their employee handbook. In ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is about to tell President Donald Trump whether he has more power to use a favorite phrase: “You're fired.”
“The motion was simply denied as premature and we will renew it as soon as the governor takes action on the bill,” said Martha Fuller, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Montana. Fuller asked that the governor “be transparent about his plans for the bill, and when he ...
In a social media post on Monday, Donald Trump lashed out about the trial date for his federal election interference case. It's scheduled to begin March 4 of next year, the day before Super Tuesday. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more on the former president's ...
If you’re being sued over a debt outside of its statute of limitations, you may need to appear in court and prove that the debt is too old to collect.Failure to appear in court to defend your case could cause a judge to rule in favor of the debt collector. ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments, saying the city violated its own policies by failing to offer other shelter. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in U.S. District Court in Oakland granted an emergency order Friday night tha...
U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan said the police department has transformed itself into a more transparent and accountable agency.
The dispute could give the Supreme Court a chance to reassess its own 1935 precedent that has limited a president's ability to fire certain agency heads. Some of the justices have signaled a willingness to rein in or perhaps overturn that ruling, in a case called Hum...